1941
Just when I thought I had one of the best "scoops" of the year, someone stole my thunder. Since last month's issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE I received lengthy articles from three sources on the unsurpassed accomplishments of our agrarian tycoon, Don Hanks. Naturally I jumped with joy, until I opened the last issue of the ALUMNI MAGAZINE and saw that Hanover beat me to the punch. The pros call it journalistic license. Like the Mets. "I was robbed." Oh well, at least I salvaged some fine pictures of the Hanks family and their 600-acre farm, which may be capable of reproduction for future issues.
One of my informants was a fellow Vermonter and fellow newspaperman of GeorgeCruze of Burlington. George is the new advertising director of the Burlington Free Press, which he joined as retail adevrtising manager in January, 1955. He joined the editorial department of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin prior to World War II, after which he became associated with the Lower Marion Newspapers Inc. of Ardmore, Pa. For six years he was retail advertising manager of the Tarentum, Pa., Valley Daily News. Prior to joining the Free Press, George worked for two years as a salesman in the general advertising department of The Indianapolis Times, a Scripps-Howard newspaper.
Congratulations to Tom Willers, the newly-elected president of the Hooker Chemical Corporation. Tom joined Hooker in 1941 after graduation and ten years later was elected comptroller. In 1957 he was moved up to treasurer and vice president, and two years after that he was placed in charge of all operating divisions of the corporation as general manager. He was named a director in 1960 and executive vice president in 1961. Tom is also a member of the Rockefeller Center Advisory Board of the Chemical Bank New York Trust Company, and a director of the National Industrial Conference Board and of the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers Association. Tom and his family live in Greenwich Conn.
As usual, New England is a beehive of activity. On February 1 Jim Kelso terminated his fifteen-year association with Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a teacher and administrator to assume the vice presidency for development of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. Prior to going to MIT, where his latest assignment was that of executive assistant to the president, Jim served for two years with Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger at Harvard University - of all places as graduate assistant. According to the president of the Rhode Island School of Design, Jim was hand-picked for this new assignment because "few men possess his keen enthusiasm for the ideas and people at the cutting edge of work in the arts, sciences and technologies." In nearby Westerly, Al Speare is the prosperous and successful owner and manager of a department store he acquired in 1957. Before purchasing this store, which now has 20 employees, he was merchandising manager for the Lincoln Stores of Syracuse, N.Y., and was associated with Park-Snow of Haverhill, Mass. His major hobby is still tennis.
Another one of our prominent scientists, John Lockwood, professor of physics and chairman of the science department of the University of New Hampshire, recently discussed the man-made radiation belt created by nuclear testing last year in a public lecture in Durham. John's department has concontributed instruments to a number of American spacecraft. Dr. Lockwood has been a member of the University of New Hampshire staff since 1948 and has been working with cosmic radiation experiments since 1951, at such varied sites as Durham, the summit of Mt. Washington and the Swedish Royal Institute of Stockholm. Down Boston way, Dick Hill, vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston, recently addressed a luncheon gathering of the New England Shippers Advisory Board on the topic of New England and Eastern Rail Mergers.
From down the pike a bit comes announcements of the current achievements, each of a different nature, of a former and a present resident of Connecticut. In the furtherance of the causes of international amity and domestic felicity, Doug Atwood, a native of Winsted and presently a CARE Representative in the United Arab Republic, announced the acquisition of attractive new holdings in the Middle East, in the person of Francine Rock, whom he married on February 9 in Alexandria, Egypt. Congratulations and best wishes, Doug. See fellas, it is never too late! Dr. Jim McGaughey of Wallingford, associate medical director of Connecticut General Life Insurance Company of Hartford, was recently elected a corporator of the Dime Savings Bank, Wallingford's oldest savings bank.
Two other Hartfordians, Everett LordWood and Ed Fell, attended the recent 1963 Alumni Fund dinner in New York. Ev is a very successful city planner for his fair city and neighboring communities and Ed looked happy and prosperous. Also on hand for this affair were George Canfield, BruceFriedlich, and Don Stillman.
Why we have to wind up in New York, I do not know; but as long as we are here, I might as well conclude with a few items from this not-so-fair city. Bob Frondorf was recently named president of Ault & Wilborg Co., a subsidiary of Interchemical Corp., a maker of printing inks, industrial finishes, and other products. While at the Miami airport preparing a television spot for one of his new advertising accounts, National Airlines, M alert photographer caught a snap of Julie Koenig standing alongside a former Miss America. Need I say who was more photogenic of the two? Last, but not least, congratulations are in order for Bob andAlice Taft. They are grandparents. Perhaps Bob has earned the distinction of becoming the first grandfather among us. Father Time please stop that clock.
Speaking of time, our class has gotten off to a good start in the 1963 Alumni Fund Campaign. In the first two days of the campaign we attained the number three spot in our Green Derby group. But time flies, so before we realize it Jane 30 will be upon us, by which date we want to be a Green Derby winner. So please, one and all, do not procrastinate like many of us did with our income tax returns. Get that check book out today, what's left of it after paying Uncle Sam. Ed Lanier and his cohorts will sincerely appreciate your promptness and your generosity. So will Dartmouth!
Secretary, 84-39 126 th St. Kew Gardens 15, N.Y.
Class Agent, 191 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 16, Mass.
